Clinical Leader

**Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District**
**Location**: Wellington District

**Service**: Acute Mental Health Inpatient after Hours, District and Hospital Services

**Contract**: Permanent, Part Time (0.5FTE / 20 hours per week)

**Salary**: $138,000 - $160,000 pro rata

**Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role**

Are you ready to make a difference for our local district specialist mental health and addiction services?

**Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team/service**

The Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service is implementing a vision, principles and future model of care that is integrated, culturally responsive, equitable across the district and aligned with national and local directions. Our focus is on local delivery across the districtone system, one service, locally delivered -.

Our principles

Principle 1: Grounded in Te Tiriti ō Waitangi | Whakapapa ki Te Tiriti ō Waitangi
- Tino rangatiratanga
- Equity
- Active protection
- Options
- Partnership

Other key principles underpinning our model of care

Principle 2: Informed by peers and those with lived experience | Ka whakamōhio e nga hoa me te hunga whai wheako ora

Principle 3: A welcoming, person and whānau-led approach | He huarahi manaaki, tāngata me te whānau

Principle 4: Timely access to services in the community | Te whai waahi ki nga ratonga i roto i te hapori

Principle 5: A strengths-based, trauma-informed and recovery focussed approach, using advanced therapy and evidence based holistic interventions | Mā te mōhio ka whai whakaaro

This position is responsible for the operational management of acute inpatient mental health hospital and clinical hospital based services across the Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service. These services include:

- Te Whare o Matairangi
- Te Whare Ahuru
- Health of Older Persons (Te Whare Ra Uta)
- Consultation Liaison (Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley)

The Clinical Leader, Acute Mental Health Inpatient After Hours, District and Hospital Services, in partnership with the Operations Manager, is responsible for calmly and astutely leading their teams while maintaining day-to-day service operations. This includes championing the organisations vision, values and model of care and developing a committed and passionate team.

**Moū - About you**

You will have:

- Relevant tertiary level qualification or equivalent in health leadership
- A clinical qualification
- Professional registration and current APC
- Able to use clinical expertise to support and lead others
- Committed to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori whānau
- held a senior role of this nature in the health sector, preferably in the mental health and addiction sector
- Extensive knowledge and perspective of Mental Health, Addiction and/or Intellectual Disability service delivery
- Successful experience in leading staff during times of change and change management

**E pā ana ki a tatou - About us**

You will enjoy a wide range of benefits including:

- Partnering with us to realise the vision of change with a team who are committed and passionate about the vision principles and model of care
- Working in partnership with tangata whaiora and whānau, to build stronger connections both across the mental health and addiction system in the communities that they live
- The ability to work more closely with your colleagues across the district, and across the distinct functions and specialities within the service
- Opportunities for greater flexibility of both work hours and locations across the district
- Greater opportunities for career progression and the development of specialisms in key areas of practice
- Access to further training and development
- Support from a dedicated project team including project and change management.

Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:
Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service

**Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply**

**Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai**

**By joining together we will succeed